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|    Daniel70 to Woozy Song    |
|    Re: How do "they" Speed-test Internet Li    |
|    09 Sep 25 21:42:40    |
      From: daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse              On 9/09/2025 2:30 pm, Woozy Song wrote:       > Daniel70 wrote:       >> (Posted to both Win-11 and Linux groups)       >>       >> Some years ago, The Australian Government set up a "company" to       >> connect everyone up to the Internet. Commercial Buildings would get       >> Fibre-to-the-Building whilst Homes would get Fibre-to-the-Node then       >> twisted pair to the Home .... unless the Home-owner paid the extra       >> bucks to get Fibre-to-the-Home.       >       > Actually, the first suburbs rolled out got FTTH, I was lucky to be in       > one. But then under pressure from Murdoch, the government went for the       > mixed madness system (FTTN, coax, fixed wireless, whatever shit was in       > the spare parts bin....)              Oh!! Are you Inner-suburban or something, Woozy?? Or Canberra?? ;-P       --       Daniel70              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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